principle we can imagine that good
all cities are people because
after all is where people live
but we can rethink this concept
and if that city is being
effectively for people
I started thinking more about this concept
from an experience
overwhelming
this experience was lived in a
street of the historic center of porto alegre
a cobbled street with cobblestone and
we lived there in our lives until one
day our normal life until one day
a black snake covered the street she
dawned paved first the
people did not realize what an impact this
could have in people’s lives but in
a short time we noticed that the
children playing in the street
started to retire and this had a
obvious reason for speed increase
cars from the asphalt of the
asphalt arrival
from this a neighbor put a
poster year the tree saying that
It was strange that we had received
asphalt when there were so many demands
on this street we never had
received from dumps from banks
for people to sit in
coexistence in the place of the
coexistence
we got an asphalt that we did not have
been asked from here to here I started to
think even academically because
I’m also a teacher of what a
city in which we would like to
We live in what city we would like to
living for this helped me some works
some books that I know none of them
is still published in Brazil
one is the follow your kite or danish
and even what is a city planner and who thinks
specifically this concept of city
by people
the other is a very nice book
very happy of a project called
children’s city of francisco tonut
15 Italian teacher and others
utopia written by chris collateral that is
one of the inspiring mentors of the masses
reviews
I’ll tell you a little about each one of these.
courses
made to meeting us power
think of what a city would be like to
people that I imagine to be the city
that we all want to see a way
build we can build together
we can have some parameters
indicators for people to think if people
lives in a city for people
we started by asking ourselves if the
people have a certain feeling to
feeling that every day in the city is
better than it was the day before
We ask this question to our city.
We are starting to reflect
about what a city is for people and
if we are in a city
for people we may wonder
if there has been on the part of the power
public if it is aimed at this
concept of closing streets for use of
pedestrians in our city in the
times some street was closed for use
exclusive to pedestrians
we can think if you hear
widening of sidewalks begin
thinking of the street of you then only
thinking about the neighborhood on the streets in general
some of them have been enlarged so that
people can walk side by side and
to enjoy more of the street what happened
it was the contrary they are avid
subtractions of streets and squares for
car tracks
we have – city for people how much
the more we have the incentive to
practice of individual cars
You see I’m starting.
deconstructing the concept to
then we get this idea of
reconstruction what is this incentive
when public policies are
projects are thought to be
aiming at the car and the
facilitation of the individual car and
not of quality public transport
and cycle paths we do not have a
city for people
When do we have a city that thinks
how to increase speed
We’re not thinking about a city.
for people when we have the
subtraction of squares and
green areas for the passage of more
cars in
people when in my neighborhood when in
my street I realize that the houses
old are giving way to modern
buildings and with it the affective memory
the city is getting lost
even if these houses do not have a value
proven history even if these
houses are not tilted
but they have the affective memory of
they may be
standard of esthetics but that ‘s where I
I know the people who lived
families who lived and qq relationship
established with this street when I
I have hygienic processes of the
city that I ‘m going to keep away from
people of the popular class
pushing the periphery and I’m not
thinking of a city for people who
the different social classes live together
but I can think I have before
the possibility of living the
city and another way
two options or resignation or
resistance of these choices
obviously that resignation is the worst
because the resignation is the anti
citizenship is when I resign to leave
my brand in the city where I live in
The resistance compensation is the
as we here are the examples
people want to resist if not you
they would not be here thinking and how
reconstruct how to think new concepts
for our lives when we
pretend to resist we can start
to be mirrored in experiences that
there are other places and then we can
create or parallel our
own experiences and several of these
happens as when I have the
human being as a reference I begin to
think from another model city
The book that I mentioned to you before.
francisco donuts children age
is a book that brings a perspective well
interesting and a perspective one
project that took place in a city
italy and takes place in some other
cities from a thesis
the thesis is the following cities in
that we live
they have as a parameter a type of
inhabitants who is an adult worker
middle age he is a subject
fast all- powerful type takes us to
think that a good city could have
as a parameter not this adult more
a child
if the city were turned to the
child and designed for the welfare of the
child
This city would be good for the child.
of course but not only for her will
good for all good head for
pregnant for the disabled
for the elderly
she would be a city of fact
then he thinks a series
of projects in which the child is
to the child says in the county of children
as it should be the city that they
would like to live
the interesting thing is that when
children create and design a city
good for them
we realize that the city is good
for all
In this case, public mobility
based on public transport of
quality is almost a buzzword but it is a
that makes so much difference in a
town we know you have security
to be transported and transformed into
behave in a timely manner and with
quality
we think again about the idea of the
wide sidewalks
it is an invitation to people to enjoy a
public space would return to the space
it is from them that it is the public space
street from time to time the children
It proposes that there should be pockets or
steal a runway one piece
of the running track that joins
sidewalk or a vacant lot
in these pockets children can
play but can play in the street the banks
of the slide are not financial banks
banks are people sit are
doing a walk then they
the rest expect someone she just
snack before continuing your
walk these cities facing the
for all of us.
they establish the so-called zones 30
to zones 10 and 30
another number below 30 corresponds to
maximum speed of cars
you see that in their areas
using virtually the same
speed of a pedestrian following the
pedestrians in these tonut proposal
he creates a fine for fine
moral is a sticker that the child has
in her backpack when she finds a
car parked on the sidewalk she has the
right to glue an adhesive well
inside the car that says sir
driver sir is a badly educated by
that messed up our joke to
Murder child is the moral fine
place date and it can also fill in
the type of infraction that was committed
then this experience of very much
moral has created a self
driver’s supervision before they
put their cars on the sidewalk
is being used by children
some micro-revolutions that happen
in various parts of the world are very
interesting for us to have as
inspiration necessarily a copy
one more inspiration to think how it is
that we can review the concepts that
We currently have a city of
speed and mobility
one of these well-
interesting things happening in Europe and
North America the so-called bus
foot
the bus on foot is 11 says the name right
a bus that is not motorized in which
people walk mainly
to take the kids to school
then they are pre-established routes
as if it were a normal bus with
stops where the family takes the child
wait for the time the bus passes
bus is a procession of people taken
for two adults right in the driver will
front a collector who does not charge more
do not lead children they have
various forms of signaling they
take a walking bus
message to the plate drivers stop the
children then carry and show
the drivers when they want
and the result of that second
schools where such practices have
been implemented extremely positively
the children on the path have already
social exchanges have talked already
update
were they interact with the city because
they are walking
we only know one city when
we walk on it because the speed
of the eye is the speed of the foot is not the
speed of the car or even
bike to and the kids arrived then
with tired physique and oxygenated mind
so you’re ready for a class in
that they will stay a certain time
seated until the time of recess
also in these countries there are several
traffic education projects
carried out in schools where
unlike what you see in
some experiences here the children
do not learn to be drivers they do not
are in a cart that simulates a
car to be later drivers
they ride a bike or walk
in those paths that simulate then
learn to relate to
with the street in the pedestrian and condition
cyclist
So lets stop being think of how it ‘s yours.
driver at the appropriate age if you
this option for your driver
the critical masses we no longer have
a statistic of how many cities have
has been implementing this
critical mass
a part you should know more than
any way the meeting of cyclists
to celebrate the bike that happens
the last Friday of the month when
then from a point
pre-combined cyclists horizontally
they decide the path and celebrate
the bicycle invite drivers to
think of another form of modality and
reverses the logic of the apocalyptic mass
that happens every day that is a
car bottling
then on that day bikes is what
they will be on the street
other interesting experiences
these micro-revolutions of the
citizenship by taking up the space that is
that the public space is of gardening
also occurs by means of the
use of the bicycle then cyclists who
meet at the end of the afternoon or
plants raise seedlings from which plants and
trees and flowers and travel
implanting city right
Sometimes I do not give up.
that could be a nest bed
becomes a beautiful flowerbed and draws
people’s attention
one of our experiences of
bicycle ‘ gem gardening bike or
listen to jade in the area she was so
interesting that we went ahead
of the building began planting
residents of the building have won
they found strange a great lot
there’s nothing around
in the perimeter of porto alegre they
They were surprised that we were doing
first thought they might be
destroying something when they
Tell us, what are we planting?
so excited about us spent a
month later to see how new
plants
they had made beds in their own
park and a lady said I’m
shame that people from far away have
come to plant in front of my house
the show very interesting experience
it is the experience of a vague job
live here in the picture of the renata ip’s on
neighborhood
is low is the resumption of spaces
parking for people
sit take rugs carry armchairs
and talk in the place where
Would a body be a dead space?
Are people making their exchanges?
social as in Rio Grande do Sul and
we do not even have the chimarrão wheel
neighbors get to know each other and it’s a
neighbor in the elevator is
a business sitting in front of the other in
in public space
people come from far away also to
experience and make exchanges
so I’m calling micro
revolutions are ideas by which
through which people return
that space is yours that space
public and thus to take the city are
in the city living in the city for people
the manager or administrator thinks about the
suppression of salt doors that we
stimulate consumerism he will think
a city that is good for people to
travel and experience
pleasant to walk and walk
interacting with other people
in this case for example the time of the
traffic light can not be as normally
he is he is
tight for the pedestrian it when it has
than pushing a button and pressing the
wait for a general eternity to have given
to cross before staying
favorable for if the signal would have to be
The opposite is the pedestrian being the
reference to the height of buildings
they are difficult according to these
Building projects of the city people
can not have more than five floors
are the way the way in which a
mother can call a child to
play for the meal because
is playing in your patio there
below and a series of other proposals
of public gardens, in
ways in which people can become
to appropriate the public space in a
city for people
We’re going to have 11 people creating problems.
to the public power that not always
knows how to solve them and realize
that the public space is of the people
When we resist this, we
it will not have will not repeat
experiences like the ones we lived
recently in porto alegre and that the
photo well portrays a photo of the game to know
river and I think the picture speaks for itself
but we here are the people
resisting does not allow such facts to be
repeat in this or any other
Thank you very much
[Applause]
”
Be First to Comment